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Mahalia's blend!

Central High School student Mahalia Gordon tells Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites about the ingredients in her natural seasoning blend, when he visited the institution in May Pen, Clarendon recently. The Minister purchased a jar of the product — Gordonna’s Everybody’s Natural Blend — and commended the young innovator for her efforts. See story on P4. (PHOTO: JIS)

May Pen, Clarendon — At a time when focus is being placed on entrepreneurship and small business development, one high school student has developed and is marketing her own line of natural food seasoning. She is 18-year-old Mahalia Gordon, a student at the Central High School in May Pen, who ... Read More

Motorists negotiating potholes on Ward Avenue, close to the Mandeville town centre last Friday. (PHOTOS: GREGORY BENNETT) Shame!
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — A recurring cluster of potholes on Ward Avenue, close to the centre o ... Read More

Students of Santa Cruz Primary and Junior High play games to an audience of their teachers and peers. We are Jamaican!
MANY Jamaicans, particularly school children, were among the Jamaica Day celebrants on February 28. ... Read More

Roger Clarke Sugar Transformation Programme spends $109m in St Elizabeth
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries says $109m is being spent ... Read More

Communication tips for Area 3 police

BY ALICIA SUTHERLAND Observer staff reporter sutherlanda@jamaicaobserver.com | Monday, March 10, 2014    

Forty-two officers in the Area Three Police Division recently received certificates for their participation in a communication workshop at Northern Caribbean University.

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Anxious to improve dialogue between police and citizens, two top achievers at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) recently initiated a communication workshop for police in Area 3 (Manchester, St Elizabeth and Clarendon). Forty-two police personnel in the three parishes received certificates for their participation in the one-day workshop, which gained high praise from Assistant Commissioner of Police Derrick Knight who heads Area 3. Workshop conceptualisers, four ... Read More

Helping hands for Curphey Home

BY ALICIA SUTHERLAND Observer staff reporter sutherlanda@jamaicaobserver.com | Monday, March 10, 2014    

Curphey Home

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — An Observer Central story highlighting water woes at Curphey Home for army veterans close to Cross Keys in South Manchester has reaped dividends for the ageing residents. Superintendant of Curphey Home and former member of the Jamaica Defence Force Clifton Irwin says that after the article on February 24, a load of water was received as a result of efforts by the Custos of Manchester Sally Porteous with the help of the National Water Commission (NWC). Another t ... Read More

63 early childhood teachers trained

Monday, March 10, 2014    

Members of the Advancing Childhood Education Programme (ACEP) graduating class display their certificates after the graduation exercise. Sharing the moment seated from left are Curriculum Development Specialist — The Mico University College Dr Clover Flowers, Jamalco’s Acting Managing Director (Corporate & Gov’t Affairs) Leo Lambert and Chairman, Early Childhood Commission of Jamaica Professor Maureen Samms-Vaughan.

MAY PEN, Clarendon — Sixty three Early Childhood education teachers from Clarendon and Manchester are better prepared thanks to the Advancing Childhood Education Programme (ACEP) sponsored by the Alcoa Foundation, according to a news release circulated here. The teachers who completed the one-year programme in January were presented with their certificates at a graduation ceremony held at the Wembley Centre of Excellence in Clarendon on February 27. Chairperson of the Early Childhood Co ... Read More

A 'ministry of care' for farm workers and their families

BY ALICIA SUTHERLAND Observer staff reporter sutherlanda@jamaicaobserver.com | Monday, March 10, 2014    

Clarendon resident Marcia Richards, Hugh Simpson and Andrea Peper are focused on helping and empowering others. (PHOTOS: GREGORY BENNETT)

SPALDING, Clarendon — His grandmother's penchant for sharing with others was a life lesson which resonated with Clarendon resident Hugh Simpson. The father of two told the Jamaica Observer Central that for the past twelve years he has dedicated his time to caring for the needs of others as he does for his own. From making available audio bibles for people who are unable to read to finding ways to assist with clothing, food or household items such as mattresses, or financial support, the ... Read More

Computers and copiers for NW Manchester schools

Alicia Sutherland | Monday, March 10, 2014    

PHILLIPS.... For the new budget year there are plans to assist more early childhood institutions with technology

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Twelve schools in North West Manchester recently received computers while some received multi-function photocopiers. The donations were made possible through the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) allocation for Member of Parliament Mikael Phillips, supported by contributions from the Digicel Foundation and photocopier provider Dos-2009 Limited. Medina All-Age, Comfort Hall All-Age, Coley Mountain Primary, Somerset All-Age, Fairfield Primary, Huntley All-Age, Na ... Read More

PHOTO: Cricket Gift

Monday, March 10, 2014    

Principal of Cross Keys High School Ralph Nelson (second left) receives a bat as part of a donation of cricket gear from the Manchester Co-operative Credit Union, represented here by Micheal Gottshalk, marketing manager. Others from left are Junior Deans, coach of the Cross Keys High cricket team, members of the team, and representatives of the teaching staff and the credit union. The gift, which consisted of bats, batting helmet, wicket-keeper's gloves and cricket shoes, worth $100,000, came partly in recognition of the strides Cross Keys has made in cricket in recent years. Most noteworthy, the school's cricket captain Tristann Coleman (inset) is the first student of Cross Keys High to be selected to the West Indies Under-19 squad. He represented the regional team at the ICC World Under-19 tournament in Bangladesh last month. Coleman is also the first Cross Keys High student to play cricket for Jamaica at age-group level. (PHOTOS: GREGORY BENNETT)

Principal of Cross Keys High School Ralph Nelson (second left) receives a bat as part of a donation of cricket gear from the Manchester Co-operative Credit Union, represented here by Micheal Gottshalk, marketing manager. Others from left are Junior Deans, coach of the Cross Keys High cricket team, members of the team, and representatives of the teaching staff and the credit union. The gift, which consisted of bats, batting helmet, wicket-keeper's gloves and cricket shoes, worth $100,000, came ... Read More

For your diary

Monday, March 10, 2014    

* Knox Community College Annual College Day and Installation of New Principal Spalding Campus, Clarendon Monday, March 10 (9:00 am) * Northern Caribbean University Research Week NCU Gymnatorium, Mandeville Monday, March 9-sixteen * Participatory, Accountability and Responsibility Parish Forum Social Development Commission, Manchester Mandeville Parish Church Hall Wednesday, March 12 (10:00 am) * Parish Achievement Day and Exposition St Elizabeth 4-H Clubs Black River High School ... Read More

Steady stream of visitors to Manley's birthplace

Garfield Myers | Monday, March 10, 2014    

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — There remains much to be done. However, a museum established at the birthplace of National Hero Norman Washington Manley at Roxborough in central Manchester is attracting a steady stream of visitors curious to learn more about their country's history. When the Jamaica Observer visited recently, a tour bus with students and teachers from Excelsior Community College (EXED) in Kingston had only just arrived. The exhibits, including text and photographs, which captu ... Read More

Racquel Powell's vision

BY GARFIELD MYERS Editor-at-Large South/Central Bureau myersg@jamaicaobserver.com | Sunday, March 02, 2014    

Racquel Powell (left) and mother Carlleen Clarke in their greenhouse. (PHOTOS: GREGORY BENNETT)

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — All her life, 44-year-old farmer Carlleen Clarke of Potsdam, close to Munro College, has experienced the seemingly never-ending cycle of shortages and gluts. Shortage will mean high prices and even windfall profits for those few farmers so fortunate to have secured the crop in question. Glut leads to low prices and heavy losses. Clarke lives in constant fear of the latter episodes of over-production which sometimes leaves farmers with no choice but to watch th ... Read More

Central Adventists sound a warning

By ALICIA SUTHERLAND Sunday Observer staff reporter sutherlanda@jamaicaobserver.com | Sunday, March 02, 2014    

Mayor of Mandeville, Councillor Brenda Ramsay (left), accepts a letter of commitment to furnish the Mandeville Park with benches from Greg Baldeo, pastor of the Mandeville Seventh-day Adventist Church, during the launch of the “Reclaiming God's Agenda” evangelistic series in Mandeville Park. Looking on from left are pastors Javian Hutton and

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Members of the Seventh-day Adventist faith in Central Manchester came out in their numbers at the Mandeville Park recently to engage the public and to impart their mission of "Reclaiming God's Agenda." The event was the introduction of an intense month-long "spiritual warfare" that is slated to take place on the grounds of the Mandeville Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church. Pastor of the Mandeville SDA Greg Baldeo said that the nightly messages that will be heard ... Read More



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